Why was the United States vulnerable to the intrusion of the "new" rich into some of the older rich families and society in the nineteenth century?
a. The "old" rich were not that old or that rich.
b. Societal relationships and bonds were riddled with old feuds and resentments.
c. The United States did not have a standing aristocracy.
d. Economic success and strong business sense were well-respected commodities in American society.
c
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What was the New Deal's largest federal employment program that put people to work in everything from construction to the arts?
A) Public Works Administration (PWA) B) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) C) Civil Works Administration (CWA) D) Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Which of the following was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?
a) California entered the Union as a free state. b) The Fugitive Slave Act was repealed. c) Utah entered the Union as a free state. d) The internal slave trade was abolished in the Lower South.
Alfred Kinsey found that infidelity in the 1940s increased only among
A) older married women. B) young married women. C) young married men. D) older married men.
By the 1850s, all of the following factors undermined the united action of women mill workers EXCEPT the
A) long tenure of women workers. B) arrival of Irish immigrants. C) use of segregated living quarters. D) hiring of more male workers.